SECRETS TO STEALTH POWER by Jack J Creed

SECRETS TO STEALTH POWER

VOLUME 1 COURSE 1 GAINING INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT
Nothing is illegal if 100 business men decided to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world. (Andrew Young)

FOREWORD The more things change, the more they stay the same is certainly an old adage but it certainly applies in regards to the circumstances of today's Human Societal Power. Superficial circumstances and formats may change but the inner workings remain the same. To set the stage for learning how to gain empowerment we must first understand the inner workings that exist today showing the distinctions between the powerful elite and the powerless. An interesting note: There is a general lack of interest in what causes us to be powerless as opposed to an enormous fascination with the powerful and the possibility of becoming powerful. Herein lies the first problem to becoming powerful that no one to date addresses. We must come to understand how and why we are powerless first before we can truly become self empowered. Brain researchers say we only use 10%-15% of our brains and possessed knowledge. This possible correlates to only having 10%-15% knowledge of power and only utilize 10%-15% of our innate powers. Societal Power is considered a very precious commodity, so much so that there is intense competition in gaining this power and is secretly guarded to limit the competition.

The only way to guard access to this power is to conceal, prohibit, and secretize all real knowledge about it. It may seem hard to believe that the real knowledge about the inner workings of power is unavailable to us. But various long-term ways and methods have been engineered to keep the masses in the dark about the true nature of power. One basic fact one must first face in gaining empowerment is that societal power is more powerful than the individual and even more powerful than groups of individuals. So to achieve empowerment one must first understand the societal factors and forces designed to prevent individual empowerment. As a final note: We as individuals have too long suffered being depowered and powerless; especially when you realize that we have many incredible powers and levels of intelligence and possess untapped superlative sensing systems.

Lesson 1

THE COMPLEX MAZE OF POWERDOM

The first thing learned about the inner workings of power is the vastness and complexity comparable to an intricate maze. Simplifying and Examining Elements To This Complexity As complex and as extensive this power is, the overall parts of this power can be subdivided. Even though there are numerous and increasingly complex categories, we will however break them down into three general categories: 1. Power at the Societal Levels 2. Power at the Individual Level 3. Power that transcends the societal and individual levels and deal with untapped energies. The first two are easily visible while the third will take more effort to identify. Due to the complexity and amount of detail required to adequately cover these categories, it will become necessary to break them up into separate volumes and courses. This volume consists of five courses and will cover in detail the elements of societal power as this is a required foundation to developing individual empowerment and sensing powers. Overriding Importance Of Societal Powers I realize that you are probably more interested in learning to become selfempowered, but to my knowledge, no book on self-empowerment comes anywhere close to identifying and addressing the overwhelming societal elements towards power. Which is why they all fail in helping one become selfempowered. One reason is because these societal elements are craftily designed to suppress, thwart, or prevent individual self-empowerment.

Therefore a relatively powerless individual might wish for self-empowerment, but these desires can be thwarted if you are uninformed about the mechanisms designed that make individual empowerment overly complicated and fruitless. No doubt that self-empowerment needs to take place in the confines of societal elements. Those societal elements have a long and quite hidden history. Many of the methods have become institutionalized and secret. The Hidden and Secret Aspects of Power Deliberate hidden aspects of power equates to secrecy. At one time or another, the secrets of power have remain hidden by the powerful elite in all cultures. This indicates that both the secrets of power and their deployment is generic to all humans. It is therefore more important to reveal the general hidden aspects of power. This way those who seek empowerment can identify each aspect or theory towards gaining power.

SECRET #1
As we start delving into how the powerful elite have dupped and lulled us into a sense of powerlessness, you'll discover how a simple use of language has been formulated to almost secretly strip away our sense of power. TWO NECESSARY TERMS For example: Most linguistics or semanticists have pointed out that topics (like power) can only be discussed by utilizing the words that a language contains. Language can be used to manipulate our thought processes just by altering the meaning of a word (as we will soon see) or even by omission. Most languages contain a number of words that can be used when discussing power. But in the case of the English language, two important terms appear to be missing, and are important to describing the context of power.

DEPOWERMENT One such omission that won't be found in any dictionary is the word depowerment. Depower is easy to understand as the exact opposite of empower, found in dictionaries, which means to enable or to increase in power. So we can say depower means to disable or to reduce in power, to deprive it of strength or capacity, to make incapable or ineffective, or to cut it back or down to negligible importance. Why would the powers that be prevent a word like depowerment from being included in dictionaries? Because depowerment and empowerment are terms indicating an active change-of-state process. Which implies that if you are depowered you can change your state to empowered. By excluding the term depowered from our normal language, it becomes difficult for the mind to mentally process becoming empowered since there is no thought process that indicates a change-of-state is possible. Empowerment and depowerment shouldn't be confused with the terms powerful and powerlessness as these refer to static conditions and not something that changes. TELEPUTE The second missing term doesn't actually exist but it will be necessary to further our understanding in discussing power. Telepute or Teleputing: a term that we will coin that means the following. The overall grasping, or synthesizing the larger overall meaning, nature, or essence of something by using a mixture of empathy, intuition, and/or telepathy. This doesn't necessarily mean or imply using some kind of extrasensory perception, but more like using certain mental abilities associated with a more holistic or speedy functions of the right brain. Teleputing is somewhat different from understanding, which refers to the left side of the brain and is slower and a more laborious process. Teleputing takes the sum of all parts or data as a whole without needing to process the individual parts themselves.

While the process of teleputing and understanding do have differences, they are not so different that they can't be used together. In other words, it can be shown that one can learn to understand information by processing the data individually in sequence but fail to telepute the sum of the parts into a whole sequentially. For example, one can prepare food by following how-to recipes with all the steps laid out sequentially and successfully create a meal. This is a function of the linear left-brain process where understanding comes to play. Without this process or in this case recipe, creating a meal would become a mystery. On the other-hand, those like a chef, can telepute a meal without the need to follow a sequential recipe and still create a delectable delight.

Exercise 1 Observe or contemplate how society causes depowerment (watch commercials as an example)

Figure1. Societal power which encompasses a large mass of individuals is maintained and held in place by a few elite who not only control wealth and resources, but also the control of information and knowledge which would allow empowerment among the masses of individuals. This web of secrets cloaks all power and empowerment knowledge through the process of social conditioning, ignorance, and stupidity among the masses.

Lesson 2

Major Concepts Of Power

The complexity of power can be visualized in many ways. As a tangled, haphazard network, a huge puzzle with missing or hard to find pieces, or as a complex maze with fake doors, dead ends and clever booby-traps. This complexity makes it difficult on where to start on what we'll call the Anatomy of Power. This Anatomy of Power has been mapped by a few intrepid investigators and has been found to reveal some kind of hierarchical nature whose structures contain orders or ranks, each answering to the one above. Thus it appears that power is arranged by control, authority and influence and ranging from the few powerful down to the powerless masses. Of course if this was all that there was to power, it would appear you would only need to learn how to negotiate your way through this structure. Behind The Conventional Power Structure Moreover, a more deeper and extensive examination reveals that the anatomy of power can be compared to the axiom it's only the tip of the iceberg expression where only 1/5th of it is visible while the other 4/5th of it is hidden. Most people can recognize that the workings of power are not only composed of visible factors, but that there are factors hidden behind the scenes even though they are difficult to identify. One factor is quite certain, that is the commonly accepted ideas of power exposes a great deal about its ever-changing variations. But those concepts are inadequate in many ways. The main reason is because the commonly accepted ideas are not solely based

on the total concept of human powers themselves. Instead, the commonly accepted ideas are based upon the made-up societal and sociological designs whose conditions are set up to establish who is and who isn't in power. In other words, societal designs are set up between the powerful and the powerless, with the powerful maintaining those designs while sometimes doing so with strength and enthusiasm bordering on the ruthless. The Visible Anatomy Of Power Societal Ingenious Device It can be seen that every societal design is nothing more than some kind of sociological artifice. In other words, an artful strategy, or an ingenious device that is advantageous rather than right or just and is designed to merge individuals into their designed sociological power structures. And well indeed, the accepted definition of power as control, authority, and influence over others can be closely linked to the definition of artifice wherein control is almost always gained by artful strategies, or by ingenious devices or resources. Only the very nave will believe that societal power does not utilize ingenious devices or unjust advantages. Most of us recognize these designs but not the extent to which these ingenious devices trickle down to the lowest echelons of the powerless. Societal Power Devices vs The Entire Human Power Structure Structured power devices do not reflect the entire human power structure, but just the particular formats of how control, authority, and influence over others is set up and then maintained for as long as possible. This structure sets up the distinction and differences between societal power systems and the relatively powerless individuals integrated within them, who sometimes feel that their own powers are constricted and cut off by the devices and programs of the power systems.

Attempts to see and understand these differences from within the ranks of the powerless usually don't get very far since it becomes very difficult to understand why societal power systems would WANT to restrict and curtail powers at the individual level. As viewed from the top of the power systems, it can logically be concluded that: 1. Control, authority, and influence over others exactly means not only control, authority, and influence over the physicality of the basically compliant population; but, 2. Also over their minds, beliefs, emotions, education, intelligences, and any potential powers that might, by chance, emerge from within the powerless masses. There is an exact reason for one and two above, which will be discussed in the next lesson. It is first necessary to examine the background of the TWO major theories of power, because they are in direct conflict with each other. The Essential and The Authoritarian Definitions of Power The main difficulty in regards to expanding one's understanding of powers relates to the commonly accepted idea that the definition of power is control, authority, and influence over others. However, that definition is more appropriately suited to the meaning of authoritarianism which is defined as relating to or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or in an elite; also, relating to or favoring submission to authority. It must be pointed out that this link between societal power and authoritarianism takes priority. After all, the term authority IS found in the accepted definitions of societal power. And those several authors, who have researched the anatomy of power, unquestionably write about those who are completely compliant to authority. Admittedly, there are various degrees and arrangements of authoritarianism, just

as there are various degrees and arrangements of power elites. But if power is defined and accepted as control and influence over others, then the others are completely compliant at the very least. The fact is that the commonly accepted idea of power as control and influence over others is only a societal strategy set up and managed so as to include the completely compliant others. Now opposed to the authoritarian definition of power are the definitions of power that can be called essential or constructive. In most dictionaries, power is given as ability to act; to cause or produce an effect; mental efficacy; a source or means of producing motive and transformational energy. For clarity and ease of use, these essential definitions can be thought of as constructive ones as opposed to the authoritarian ones which, by definition, are controlling ones. If the distinctions between controlling and constructive powers are meditated upon as calmly as possible, it can almost immediately be seen that the constructive and the controlling definitions of power are in conflict. The simple reason is because controlling powers want or find it necessary to control constructive powers at the individual level. As we will discuss in depth in this course, the essential or constructive definitions of power as discussed above is the exact opposite of the authoritarian definition of power. The more exact reason is that authoritarian control can act to suppress and defeat the marvel that is associated with the development of our essential activation of power at the individual level. Dictionary Definitions of Power Most modern dictionaries primarily give the first definition to the authoritarian definition of power, and the second definition to the constructive meanings. However, the Oxford dictionary of the English language reveals that the essential definition of to cause to act was first utilized about the year 1305.

The essential or constructive definition as a particularly strong faculty of body or mind, of vigor, vitality, and energy appeared about 1440. The two authoritarian ideas of power as personal or social ascendancy and controlling political or economic ascendancy or influence did not appear until 1535. In any event, in today's dialect there are two highly contradictory definitions of power. Both are mentioned, but the authoritarian one is given first, and the constructive ones second. This first and second place arrangement undoubtedly serves to impress that controlling powers are more important than the constructive ones. This leads one to believe (as will be discussed in later lessons) that there MUST be some deep concern from those who wish to maintain control and influence over others. The Power of Societal Devices vs Constructive Powers of the Individual So far, now, the complex subject of power divides neatly into two parts the power of societal devices, and the power of the individual. As noted, these two kinds of power are not exactly the same. A number of books on the subject of self-empowerment have appeared over time, and some contain very helpful information, but most of them fail miserably with regard to one very important subject: They give almost no hint of what the individual is ultimately up against. Briefly it can be said that one is born into a physical and mental life, and that one is born equipped with a vast wealth of innate powers. But one is also born into an environment of an existing power structure holding control, authority, and influence over the individual. So therefore one is born into those existing power environments as a lone individual having little right to freely and fully develop their innate powers. Indeed, such existing power structures or societal devices exercise enormous control and influence with regards to trying to develop one's self-empowerment.

The Basic Problem of Self-Empowerment Concerning self-empowerment, one will not be attempting to become selfempowered per se, but will be attempting to become self-empowered WITHIN a societal structure which has been designed with ingenious devices and certain advantages to cut off too much self-empowerment. If one is not at least aware of those societal devices and advantages, one's selfempowerment efforts may end up becoming like a dismal, failure-prone war fought in unmapped territory where the societal devices have all the advantages. If the above seems harsh, then just take a look at the endless number of powerless individuals throughout the world. Yet we have existed here long before these societal power structures came into existence that are controlled by the powerful few. Also, if we didn't posses the potential to become powerful individuals, there would be little need to erect power structures designed to control power in the first place. In any event, it is now necessary to move into the next phase and examine the enormous differences between the powerful and the powerless and to point out one main reason for this difference.

Exercise 2 Observe differences between individual and societal powers. List names of the powerful elite and their methods of control.

Lesson 3

THE HIDDEN STATUS QUO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POWERLESS AND THE POWERFUL
Most books that map the commonly accepted anatomy of power direct plenty of attention to the powerful, but hardly any attention at all to the powerless except to point to them as the controlled, the influenced, and the extremely compliant. Because of this, it is possible to find out a great deal about power through the power structures of the powerful. But beyond that, it is really quite difficult to find anything out about the powerless, except that they are integrated into the lower class of power structures where they are graded as having very little or no power status at all. Generally speaking, we can say that the powerless exist because they ARE powerless, beside which no further comment is necessary. The above observations describe a rather fixed idea that seems to be taken as natural by the powerful as well as by the powerless. The arrangement between them is simply thought of as the way things have always been, are, and always will be. The complete picture of this can be drawn as a traditional power structure pyramid. The traditional power pyramid is usually shown as an equilateral triangle (all sides are equal) which gives the impression not only of balance throughout, but also that the powerless are, more or less, an accepting benefiting part of this power pyramid. A more honest assessment of the total populations involved most likely will not result in a balanced equilateral format.

Therefore, upon examining empowerment potentials, it appears necessary to set up the approximately correct proportions of differences between the powerful and the powerless, and then point out a component that is clearly not found or mentioned in any other book about power. The Relatively Large Differences Between the Powerless and the Powerful Generally speaking, the basically powerful make up about 10%or less of the total population, while the typically powerless make up the remaining 90% or more. This obviously cannot be accurately configured as an equilateral triangle. Maybe the smaller percentage of the powerful part of the population could be shown as an equilateral triangle. But the greater percentage of the unbalanced powerless population would need to be shown as a vastly bigger and extended design. The Needed Status Quo Relationship Between the Powerful and the Compliant Powerless A major question never posed is: If the powerless never existed, then who would the powerful have power over? As a result, there is a real and overly large unbalanced relationship between the powerless and powerful. There are many historical events which indicate that the powerful are aware of this required relationship and that visible and hidden methods were developed to continue this status quo relationship at all societal levels. In past centuries, this relationship was vigorously and effectively managed by establishing class systems. There was the minority powerful and the majority powerless, with no means for moving up the social ladder. This was accomplished by denying the ability to read or write to the lower classes. Simply put, the class you were born into is the class you remained in without any means for change.

Historians have explained this as a required method to ensure continuance of property and wealth. But what has been neglected to be made clear and is equally obvious is the fact that this method prevents access to societal power and to perpetuate the powerless classes so the powerful could have power over them. On an overall scale, it is this needed relationship which make examinations of power so complicated or converts such an examination into a puzzle who pieces are very hard to find. Moreover, this continuation of this needed relationship between the very few powerful and the very many powerless is extremely complicated, mainly because it must be managed on a very large and on a microscopic scale by which they prevent the collective powerless from becoming aware of their methods. It should be noted, this required existence of a direct relationship between the societal powerful and the unaware powerless most likely qualifies as the First Secret! Though it might not really be considered a secret as it is usually understood by the compliant masses embodied into a given societal power device. Power Is Just Not Power Power is not just power, based on our previous discourse, but that power over others can come into play only with contact to the powerless. You may find it amusing how the official definitions of societal authoritarian power which we have previously established as control, authority, and influence over others, never identifies the nature of the others. If the nature of the others was openly and clearly identified, it would surely define power as control and influence over and among the powerless. Obviously this definition would reveal the required relationship between the few powerful and the powerless masses.

The Powerless Do Not Generally Think of Themselves as Powerless It could be contemplated that the topic of power is full of unsuspected flaws, and based on the above title, one such flaw is encountered right away. Basically, the powerless rarely delight in the idea of thinking of themselves as powerless largely due to the idea that being powerless is demoralizing and demeaning. It is easy to avoid this unspoken issue because power and powerlessness are intimately related. Just about everyone has some kind of power, if only withing their own local environment or their own belief sets. But avoiding the unspoken issues causes other problems to bare when one wishes to become more powerful. In this day and age, if someone complains or gripes about not having enough power, they will most likely be told that this is a result of their own psychological frame of mind, for example, no self-confidence, not enough drive, relationship problems, etc., and that these need to be fixed on an individual level first. These issues may have a contributing factor to the condition, but there is a larger reason why the powerless don't have much power. This reason has something to do with the symbiotic relationship between the powerful and the powerless. For example, if the powerful need a large stock of powerless individuals in order to have power over them, then it would be required to condition powerlessness into the masses through social and educational devices. So, therefore, the fault of powerlessness might not be considered as one's own, but due to the programming from external sources. Many legitimate books explaining the generally accepted anatomy of power do emphasize the importance of social conditioning thereby ensuring at least compliance, if not complete powerlessness.

The Three Hidden Parts of Power Over Others Considering the above, the topic of and circumstance of power easily breaks down into three basic parts with the following priorities: 1. The required existence of the powerless; 2. The necessary unbalanced relationship between the powerless and the powerful; and 3. The powerful who arise from among the powerless and who then must maintain the required unbalanced relationship. These three power parts suggest that the powerless must exist before the powerful can arise amongst them, in other words, to exert control over the masses. If this were the case, then very few of the powerful would attempt to empower the masses because this would void part #2. What this says is that the power contained within ourselves that could be developed are artificially contained by hidden societal mechanisms.

Exercise 3 Contemplate or examine any guilt we might feel about becoming powerful and where those feelings originate from.

Lesson 4

Humanities Power
At first look, any effort to set up a working link between power and humanity might seem unappealing and far from the subject of power itself. Of course, if one is only thinking about the concept of power it might not be necessary to make that link. But if you are thinking about the concept of empowerment, then it becomes clear that empowerment revolves around a change of state from a type of powerlessness into a state defined by a manifestation of more power. The Differences Between Sources and Manifestations of Power One of the main issues in regards to empowerment has to do with where power comes from in the first place. In consideration towards that issue, it is important to show that there are important differences between (1) where power comes from, and (2) what power is. It also should distinguish between (1) sources of power, and (2) the manifestation of power. If you were to spend a lot of time examining literature about power, you would clearly find that most assume that the manifestation of power are the same as the source of power. But the word MANIFEST indicates whatever is readily perceived by the senses, especially by the sight; or to whatever is easily understood or recognized by the mind. MANIFESTATION includes something made evident, obvious, or certain by appearing, showing, or displaying.

SOURCE, however, means the point of origin; a generative force; a cause; to rise up or spring forth. So therefore if there is no point of origin for power (source), then there cannot be any appearances or manifestation of power. As will be made clear, our previous discussion pertaining to sources and manifestations of power is definitely super-filled with assumptions having to do with teleputing not only the reality of empowerment, but the reality of depowerment as well. Humanity Erects Power Structures